Biography

A multi-award winning Interior Architect with first-class BA(Hons) and eighteen years experience designing, running and administering the contracts of large-scale, prestigious design projects such as the Millennium Dome. Specialising in the interpretation and translation of high profile design briefs into innovative, imaginative and award winning design solutions. His last project, ‘Energy – Fuelling the Future’ at the Science Museum, London received four D&AD awards and the Design Week award for ‘Best Exhibition Design’.

Craig completed a Masters in Fine Art, specialising in the creation of multi-sensory, immersive, site responsive artworks that explore the exchange, relay and interrelationship between the participant and their environment. Constructing environments from carefully defined stimuli that explore the human subjects embodied, environmentally dependent lived experience. He has recently exhibited artworks at venues including; Chapter Arts, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Tactile Bosch, Wales Millennium Centre and Nottingham’s Bonington Gallery.

He is the founding member of Social Club, a Cardiff-based collective of creatives that include: designers, architects, artists, makers, musicians, poets, performers, etc. Each SocialCLUB collaboration looks to create unique and distinct environments that occupy the territory somewhere between architecture, art, cinema and theatre.

Craig is currently employed as a Senior Lecturer (1.0) Programme Director on the Interior Design at CSAD.

Between 2011 and 2015 he was employed as a Senior Lecturer (0.7) on the Foundation Diploma in Art and Design where two of his 3D students were awarded the WJEC 2014 FADEx Winner and Highly Commended prizes. He became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) in June 2010 and is a visiting lecturer at the University of South Wales and the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) post-graduate Professional Diploma in Architecture at Machynlleth.

From 2004 to 2011 he was employed as a Senior Lecturer (0.7) on the highly regarded, multi-award winning BA(Hons) Interior Architecture course. The course won many awards including; Winner of the ‘Welsh Graduate Design Award’ at the Cardiff Design Festival 2010, Top Prize in the ‘Spatial Design’ category at London’s New Designers Show in 2008 and 2009, and the ‘FormZ Interior Design Joint Study Award’ in 2008, 2009 and 2010. Until recently he also held the University of Wales post of Moderator to the validated Interior Design course at Limerick Senior College.

Current research

PhDAn academic with particular interests in Consciousness, Perception and Embodiment, Craig’s PhD title is Can measurement of audience response help evaluate whether an artwork conveys the artists intention?.

Craig is involved in three exciting Cardiff Metropolitan University research projects:

‘Vision-Space’: Led by Prof Rob Pepperell and Prof Steve Gill, the project explores our perceptual structure of vision to recreate the immersiveness of experiential reality.

‘Multi-Coloured Musical Magic’ and ‘Somantics’: Led by Wendy Keay-Bright, the project aims to develop experimental technology applications that enable autistic children to explore their environment as a medium for relaxation and to maximise on their physical and sensory interests as triggers for expressive communication.